Files.com is one of the largest providers of cloud-based SFTP in the world. SFTP is widely used for business-to-business integration, and Files.com supports it fully.

SFTP has major performance limitations at the protocol level, and corporate firewalls can interfere with SFTP traffic. Use SFTP when an application or process specifically requires it — most commonly for business-to-business integration.

For file transfers where performance matters, use the Files.com direct integrations instead: the Desktop, Mobile, and Web apps, SDKs, API, and Command Line app. See Preferred Apps For File Transfer for an overview of the native apps as alternatives to SFTP.

For tuning SFTP itself, see Maximizing SFTP Performance.